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Patrick Maroon scored his seventh goal of the playoffs in the Anaheim Ducks' 5-2 loss to the Blackhawks in Chicago Wednesday night.

The Western Conference Final is now tied at 3-3, with the seventh and deciding game to be played in Anaheim Saturday night. Maroon has contributed 10 points in 15 playoff games for the Ducks. Anaheim's other goal Wednesday was produced by Clayton Stoner, his first of the post-season. The Ducks never led in this one and were down by as much as 3-0 in the second period. May 27 - 11:32 PM

Patrick Maroon buried his sixth goal of the playoffs on Monday night in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final.

He gave the Ducks a 4-2 lead late in the third period, but Chicago stormed back to send the game into overtime with two goals in the final two minutes of regulation. Anaheim managed to bounce back and win the match early in the extra session to take a 3-2 series lead. Maroon has contributed nine points in 14 playoff games. May 26 - 10:26 AM

Patrick Maroon found the back of the net in the Ducks' 2-1 victory on Thursday.

It was Maroon's first goal of the Western Conference Final and fifth marker of the playoffs. He now has eight points in 12 postseason games. Maroon also registered four hits in 14:41 minutes of ice time Thursday night. May 22 - 9:33 AM

The Anaheim Ducks will need to use their size advantage over the Chicago Blackhawks in the Western Conference Final.

The Ducks have 12 players who weigh over 210 pounds while Chicago has a couple of players who weigh that much. That gives the Ducks a big advantage and they will try to use that in all the battles in the corners and all over the ice. Patrick Maroon is one such player who will not be afraid to throw his weight around. May 17 - 7:12 AM

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Patrick Maroon buried his sixth goal of the playoffs on Monday night in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final.

He gave the Ducks a 4-2 lead late in the third period, but Chicago stormed back to send the game into overtime with two goals in the final two minutes of regulation. Anaheim managed to bounce back and win the match early in the extra session to take a 3-2 series lead. Maroon has contributed nine points in 14 playoff games.

Patrick Maroon found the back of the net in the Ducks' 2-1 victory on Thursday.

It was Maroon's first goal of the Western Conference Final and fifth marker of the playoffs. He now has eight points in 12 postseason games. Maroon also registered four hits in 14:41 minutes of ice time Thursday night.

The Anaheim Ducks will need to use their size advantage over the Chicago Blackhawks in the Western Conference Final.

The Ducks have 12 players who weigh over 210 pounds while Chicago has a couple of players who weigh that much. That gives the Ducks a big advantage and they will try to use that in all the battles in the corners and all over the ice. Patrick Maroon is one such player who will not be afraid to throw his weight around.

The goal was of the empty-net variety, but it counts just the same. Maroon led all skaters with six shots, and added a pair of hits during his 18:54 of work in Friday's 4-2 Game Four win over Calgary. He now has four goals and six points in eight games this postseason.

Patrick Maroon notched his third goal of the postseason in Game 3 versus Calgary.

He has produced five points in seven contests during the playoffs. Maroon tied the game at 1-1 after the Flames jumped out to an early 1-0 lead. Calgary ended up rallying to record a 4-3 overtime victory.

Maroon has been playing alongside Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry and that has to be one of the best gigs in the NHL. "Here’s a big guy a lot of people would argue isn’t the greatest skater in the world, but he’s got really good hands for a big guy," Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. "He knows how to play offensively and he can play the physical part, and he sticks up for his teammates. When you’ve only been in this league for a little over two years, the consistency isn’t always there. That’s the only thing that’s plagued him during the course of the year. When he’s on top of his game, he’s a force for us. He’s back on that line because he has been consistent of late. There’s been no letdown in his game." Maroon has two goals and four points in five playoff games this season.

Maroon missed one game due to flu-like symptoms but is ok to play Wednesday night. The gritty winger has nine goals and 34 points with 86 penalty minutes and 120 hits in 70 games played this season. He is expected to suit up on the fourth line with Chris Wagner and Tim Jackman.

Patrick Maroon missed Friday's game with the flu and also was unable to participate in Saturday's practice.

Maroon was on the ice before practice so it's anticipated he will be able to go on Wednesday when the Ducks take on the Dallas Stars. Maroon has nine goals and 34 points with a minus-four rating and 82 penalty minutes this season.

Patrick Maroon fought Dalton Prout on Tuesday night in an effort to spark his Ducks back from a 4-3 deficit late in the second period.

Maroon didn't impact the score sheet otherwise, but does have four points and seven penalty minutes over his last five games. He now has 78 PIMs to go along with 32 points through 66 games this season. The Ducks would fall to the Blue Jackets 5-3.

Patrick Maroon bounced back nicely after spending Friday's game in the press box.

"He won all the battles on the boards and got two assists," Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said, assessing Maroon's performance on Sunday. "Probably feels pretty good about himself because he hadn't had too much production lately. That's the message we were trying to send. It was a good message and he got it." Despite being listed as a healthy scratch on Friday, Maroon is already back to playing alongside Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry.

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He will not need surgery. Eric Stephens of the Orange County Register says Getzlaf will rehab the injury during the summer. The Ducks did not disclose any sort of timetable, though the 30-year-old should be ready in plenty of time for the start of training camp. Getzlaf had 25 goals and 70 points during the regular season, adding 20 points in 16 games during the playoffs.

Ryan Kesler is determined to play beyond the six-year, $41.25 million contract he signed on Wednesday.

Keep in mind that Kesler still has one season of his previous deal left, so he's locked up for the next seven campaigns. He'll turn 31 years old on August 31. "Right now, I'm fully confident that I can play out this contract and get another one after," Kesler said. We don't have trouble believing that he'll be able to extend his playing career beyond this contract, but there's a good chance that Kesler will be a significantly worse player by that point.

Rickard Rakell's only point of the playoffs came back in Game 3 of the first round against Winnipeg.

He scored the game-winning goal that night in overtime. Rakell hasn't earned a point in 11 straight games since then. He will continue to skate on the fourth line with Emerson Etem and Jiri Sekac in Game 6 against Chicago.

General Manager Bob Murray said that the shoulder injury suffered by Nate Thompson was a bad one.

Thompson required surgery to repair two labral tears and do not expect the feisty forward to be back in action until November or December. He will likely not be at 100 percent upon his return. His big fantasy value is in faceoff wins so we would take a pass on him this season.

Shawn Horcoff has signed a one-year contract worth $1.75M with the Anaheim Ducks.

Horcoff had another poor year with Dallas in 2014-15, scoring just 11 goals and 29 points in 76 games. Anaheim possibly represents a fresh start for Horcoff who is now 36-years-old, and just finished a five-year contract worth $33M he originally signed with Edmonton.

The Anaheim Ducks and Jakob Silfverberg continue to talk about a contract extension.

Silfverberg is a restricted free agent and the Ducks want him back in their lineup after an outstanding playoffs where he had four goals and 18 points in only 16 games. Silfverberg struggled in the regular season with only 13 goals and 39 points in 81 games but the post-season showed many what kind of hockey player he is capable of being.

Patrick Maroon scored his seventh goal of the playoffs in the Anaheim Ducks' 5-2 loss to the Blackhawks in Chicago Wednesday night.

The Western Conference Final is now tied at 3-3, with the seventh and deciding game to be played in Anaheim Saturday night. Maroon has contributed 10 points in 15 playoff games for the Ducks. Anaheim's other goal Wednesday was produced by Clayton Stoner, his first of the post-season. The Ducks never led in this one and were down by as much as 3-0 in the second period.

The Anaheim Ducks and newly acquired RFA forward Carl Hagelin are "making progress" on a new contract.

With now-teammate Andrew Cogliano serving as a comparable, Hagelin "is believed to be seeking something in the neighborhood of $3-3.5 million annually." Cogliano is two years older and with over twice as many games played in the NHL than Hagelin, he is also in the middle of a four-year contract worth $12M. Hagelin appears as focused as ever regardless of what he signs for, "I always go in with the same mindset every year. I’m ready to do whatever it takes." If the two sides cannot come to an agreement by Sunday afternoon, then they'll have to settle in arbitration later in the summer.

While it's not 100 percent certain, it looks like Tomas Fleischmann will draw back into the Anaheim Ducks' lineup against the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 7 of the WCF on Saturday.

Bruce Boudreau seems like he's leaning toward experience in slotting Fleischmann in for Emerson Etem. The 31-year-old Czech has one assist in five postseason games. He's gone three straight without a point, receiving minimal ice time and only generating a single SOG in that span. It would be surprising if "Flash" is a big difference-maker in this one, but Game 7's can be unpredictable.

Corey Perry had personal highs in the 2015 playoffs with 10 goals and 18 points in 16 games.

His 10 goals also tied Anaheim's franchise record for goals in a single postseason, which was originally set by Andy McDonald in 2007. Unfortunately, he won't get to continue as his Ducks were eliminated in the Western Conference Final by Chicago.

Andrew Cogliano scored a goal in Anaheim's triple-overtime loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday.

Cogliano has recorded a point in three of his last four contests. Tuesday's defeat will obviously be particularly tough for Anaheim to swallow, but it needs to bounce right back in the Western Conference Final. If Cogliano continues to play like he has lately, there's a fair chance the Ducks will be able to accomplish that.

Jiri Sekac will remain in the lineup for Game 2 against Chicago in the Western Conference Final.

He skated on the fourth line in his first NHL playoff appearance during Game 1 on Saturday. Coach Bruce Boudreau liked what he saw from the trio of Sekac, Rickard Rakell and Emerson Etem, so he'll keep the intact for Tuesday night.

The deal is reportedly worth $1.7 million dollars. The 27-year-old scored 28 goals back in 2009-10 but has failed to hit the 20-goal mark since then. Stewart is a big body who doesn't shy away from contact and he certainly has the ability to score at the NHL level, but consistency has always been an issue. Still, this is a good low-risk signing for the Ducks. He had 14 goals and 36 points with Buffalo and Minnesota last season.

The Anaheim Ducks are expected to roll the same lineup on Tuesday night in Game Two as they did in Game One on Sunday against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Forwards Tim Jackman and Tomas Fleischmann will be joined by defenders James Wisniewski and Korbinian Holzer, along with goalie Jason LaBarbera in the press box to cheer on their mates. Of note, only Jackman and Fleischmann have seen postseason action during these playoffs and have combined for a point in 13 games.

Cam Fowler was disappointed yet again as the Ducks dropped another Game 7.

This is the third straight year that the Ducks have lost a Game 7 at home and it's starting to wear on the young blueliner. "It's miserable," Fowler said. "It's an awful feeling. I just feel like personally, I let a lot of people down. I think as a team, we let a lot of people down. We felt like we had a special thing going and for it to be over is a pretty surreal feeling, to be honest. It doesn't feel like we deserve to be done yet, but that is how it goes." Fowler had an assist on the final goal and ended the playoffs with two goals and 10 points in 16 games.

Sami Vatanen had a goal and an assist in the Ducks' 5-4 overtime win against Chicago in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final.

He potted two goals in the first four games of the playoffs when Anaheim faced Winnipeg in Round 1, but his production had slowed down since then. Vantanen accounted for three assists in his previous nine games. He now has posted 10 points in 14 matches this postseason.

Look for Kevin Bieksa to be the veteran leader of the Anaheim Ducks blueline.

The Ducks had Francois Beauchemin as their veteran leader last season but the unrestricted free agent left for the Colorado Avalanche this week. The 34-year-old Bieksa will provide the veteran presence for the young Ducks like Cam Fowler 23, Sami Vatanen 24, Hampus Lindholm 21 and Simon Despres 23. Bieksa used to be a very good fantasy defenseman but with four goals and 14 points in 60 games last season, he has little value outside of his penalty minute totals at this stage of his career.

Hampus Lindholm had a goal and an assist in Sunday's 4-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks.

Lindholm continues to be one of the most underrated players in the entire NHL. The 21-year-old opened the scoring at the 8:48 mark of the first period and he also added an assist on Nate Thompson's insurance marker in the third period. Lindholm finished the game with a plus-1 rating and two blocked shots in 22:43 of ice time. He now has two goals and eight points in 10 playoff games in 2015. Lindholm was named the game's second star.

Simon Despres has been a pleasant surprise on the Ducks blueline since his trade from Pittsburgh at the trade deadline.

Despres had the winner on Thursday but his solid play since the March 2 trade has impressed his teammates. "When you don’t expect much from a guy because you didn’t know the guy, it was a great surprise for everybody," fellow defenseman Francois Beauchemin said. "He was the steal of the deadline, that’s for sure. In the last few years I don’t know if there’s a guy that was traded at the deadline that’s made such a big impact on a team as he did. It was just a great move by Murph (GM Bob Murray)."

Clayton Stoner netted his first goal of the 2015 playoffs on Wednesday night in Game 6 against Chicago.

He scored less than two minutes into the third period to shrink Chicago's lead to one goal, but the Ducks couldn't get the tying marker and ended up with a 5-2 loss. Stoner has one point, 28 blocks, 59 hits and a plus-5 rating in the postseason this year.

The Ducks first round pick and 26th overall in the 2013 Draft is a high scoring defenseman who may need some more minor league seasoning. He played a bit in Norfolk at the end of the season but had 13 goals and 48 points in 43 games for Seattle of the WHL. He shouldn't see any playoff action but with the Admirals eliminated from play in the AHL, the chance to be with the Ducks during the Stanley Cup run, can only help him in the future.

The season didn't end the way he wanted it to, but Andersen did have a strong campaign in 2014-15. "I know that I've taken steps," Andersen said. "But we'll see. I'll talk to the people on my team to get me better, my trainers and stuff. How to build for next year. It's not going to be tomorrow, but it's going to be hopefully pretty soon." The 25-year-old finished the year with a 35-12-5 record and a 2.38 goals-against-average and a .914 save percentage.

Anaheim GM Bob Murray said that goaltender John Gibson is not on the trade block.

There were plenty of rumors when Murray dealt for Carolina netminder Anton Khudobin but the GM nixed those thoughts quickly in a press conference. "It’s funny," Murray said. "I make a deal and everybody obviously assumes one of the two is going. Maybe everybody should look back at what went on last year and the [bad situations] that were created with the injuries with these two guys and the different ways we tried to fix it and didn’t work. This way, we’re covered. We’re covered right now. I have no idea how it’ll play out at the start. But I just know I’ve got my back end covered right now." It looks like Frederik Andersen is slated to start and Gibson could find himself in the minors as he does not have to clear waivers next season.